Archaeologists fight developers

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - With a real estate development in the works,
archaeologists are fighting for a chance to study a site they say could
provide clues to the fate of a famed ancient culture along the Gulf of
Mexico. The site, now just a cluster of dirt-covered mounds called El
Dorado, is in the 200-acre Mandinga mangrove swamp along the Jamapa River,
just 13 miles south of the port of Veracruz. The Mandinga Swamp Promotion
and Construction company had started draining the swamp and parceling it to
create a luxury housing project with a marina when the government's
National Anthropology and History Institute discovered the plan in
November. The institute got injunctions to stop construction and has been
negotiating with the developer over ways to save the site. See full story
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